What the records say
- When
- 1465
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 41.52° N, 20.53° E
- Description
- 1465 Albanian-Ottoman battle
Battle of Meçad (1465)
Albanian-Ottoman battle
The Battle of Meçad took place in July 1465 between Skanderbeg's Albanian forces and Ballaban Badera's Ottoman forces. Skanderbeg had been leading a war against the Ottoman Empire for over two decades and Ballaban Badera was an Ottoman captain of Albanian origin who had been recruited through the devşirme system. Ballaban planned to catch Skanderbeg's camp in a surprise when he was away.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Мекаде”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page